- Home
- Programmes
- Literature
- Europe
409 Master's degrees in Literature in Europe

English Literary Studies
With this English Literary Studies course from University of Southampton you’ll get the chance to carry out advanced-level research and independent critical thinking, and to make effective use of archives, manuscripts, and research libraries.
Languages, Literatures, Cultures
The Languages, Literatures, Cultures MA course offered by Durham University is an exciting, unique and dynamic course that invites you to engage critically with literatures emerging from diverse literary and cultural contexts from around the world.
English Language and Culture
This English Language and Culture program at University of Eastern Finland, taught entirely in English and directed to international applicants, seeks to provide an opportunity to study English from a variety of literary and linguistic perspectives.

Comparative Literature
The Comparative Literature programme from SOAS University of London is an opportunity to study literature from the regions of Africa and Asia. Covering universal themes but in a unique, multi-cultural domain, you will explore a wide range of literature and its place in culture and society.
Irish Writing
The Irish Writing programme of Trinity College Dublin offers an exploration of Irish writing in English from the late seventeenth century to the present. Trinity has educated many important writers, from Jonathan Swift to Samuel Beckett to Eavan Boland to Anne Enright.

Comparative Literature
The Comparative Literature programme of the University of Glasgow offers interdisciplinary study across linguistic cultures as well as academic fields. Benefitting from a strong and diverse School of Modern Languages and Cultures, you will be able to take courses in the comparative study of literatures, film, visual arts, or societies of two or more language areas

Portuguese
Pursue research you are passionate about. This Portuguese course from Newcastle University combines taught and research elements, allowing you to explore in depth a specific area of Portuguese studies such as linguistics, Latin American culture and politics, the Spanish novel, or Latin American film.

Film and Literature
The interdisciplinary Film and Literature programme from University of York combines critical inquiry and independent research with passionately committed teaching from world-leading scholars.
English Literature and Culture
The one-year English Literature and Culture MA programme at Leiden University focuses on the interaction between literature and key political and social issues such as identity, migration, memory and the metropolis, but also between literature and the literary tradition, and literature and film.
English Culture and Literature
Our M.A. and Ph.D. programmes at Atilim University cover English Culture and Literature studies including the most recent studies in this field. The aim of these post graduate programmes is to enable students to benefit from these studies to create original thoughts and views and also guide them in their academic studies, written in accordance with academic rules.
Literature - Culture - Media, Scandinavian Studies
The aim of the Literature - Culture - Media, Scandinavian Studies programme from Lund University is to strengthen students’ historical knowledge and theoretical understanding of relations between literature, culture and modern media.

English Literature - Modern and Contemporary Literature
The English Literature - Modern and Contemporary Literature programme from University of Liverpool will be shaped and informed by leading international researchers in the literature and culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Literatures of Engagement
The Literatures of Engagement programme from Maynooth University addresses this sense of crisis by recognising the significant role that literature and the critical discourses associated with the study of literature, have in both reproducing and analysing cultural values and ideologies, but also in articulating responses and resistance to those.

English Language and Linguistics
The English Language and Linguistics MA degree at Northumbria University offers a solid grounding in key areas of linguistics and is designed for those who want to further their study of a wide range of areas of linguistics at a higher level.
English Studies - Early Modern Studies
The Master in English Studies - Early Modern Studies from University Paris Cité is dedicated to French and international students interested in an innovative, diachronic approach of a central period for understanding Western modernity.
Russian and Eurasian Studies
The Russian and Eurasian Studies MA programme draws on Leiden University's status as an international centre of expertise in the study of Russia and Eurasia.
English (1700-1830)
The English (1700-1830) programme from the University of Oxford is designed to serve both as an autonomous degree for students wishing to pursue more advanced studies in English literature, and as a solid foundation for doctoral research.

Master's by Research
The Master's by Research MA/MSc programme from De Montfort University emphasises independent study over taught instruction. It is often used as a training course in advanced research work and lays the foundation towards doing a PhD.

Multilingual Linguistics and Literary Studies
This Multilingual Linguistics and Literary Studies MA program from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) allows you to specialise in two or more languages? Become a multilingual professional and dive into other languages and cultures!
Literary Studies
The Literary Studies MA degree from Aberystwyth University offers you a stimulating engagement with English literature in all its depth and diversity, with the opportunity to develop particular expertise in one of a number of specialist areas.